The discipline of Maternal-Fetal Medicine involves four major subgroups of patients:
- Patients undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic procedures,
- Patients with medical and surgical disorders,
- Healthy gravidas with fetuses at markedly increased risk of adverse outcome,
- Any antepartum patient admitted for "other than delivery" and patients with postpartum complications
such as severe hemorrhage, refractory infections, complicated preeclampsia, eclampsia and difficult post
cesarean complications
Research Projects:
- Biochemical Risks of Preterm Labor (Baker)
- Biomarkers in Vulvodynia (Baker)
- Placental Fibrosis (Demishev)
- Biomarkers in Gestational Diabetes: (Landres, &/or Bernasko)
- Biomarkers in Vulvodynia (Baker)(NIH)
- Code Noelle: Interdisciplinary Management of Obstetric Hemorrhage (PI: Ogburn, co-PI: Griffin, Garduno, Chappelle, Kumar, Steinberg) (APGO)
- Early post-partum screening for type 2 diabetes in women who had gestational diabetes (Yeh, Ogburn)
- Placental Fibrosis (Demishev)
- Biomarkers in Gestational Diabetes (Landres, Bernasko, Baker)